https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roF4jWEqBLg Even though Andy Warhol may not have had the museum namesake he deserved in New York – only Pittsburgh accepted a Warhol Museum after his premature death – and even though he isn’t actually buried there...
Sean Scully: the Irish abstract art star explains why he’s turning to the figurative and answers 8 questions in almost 1 minute
Sean Scully (born in 1945) cuts an imposing figure. Tall in stature, he moves slowly. His face is stern. He has thin lips. A shaved head. He could play the role of a bad guy in a film. He has a reputation for being difficult, but after spending a short time in his...
JW Anderson: 8 answers on art in 1 minute from one of the edgiest fashion designers
The first thing you notice is his blue eyes. He has even features, a fair complexion. He seems calm and poised and it would appear I’m in luck: Jonathan William Anderson doesn’t talk to the press much. The first time I met him was during an exhibition at the Vuitton...
Guarantee: the parallel market established by auction houses before the sales at auction.The art market’s best-kept secret
The next modern and contemporary art sales of the season will take place the week of the 12 November in New York. The programme features a large amount of expensive art, the most expensive of the last six months, being passed from one hand to another with creations...
Hiroshi Sugimoto at Versailles: in his sublime glass tea house the star photographer speaks of zen and ghosts
“Lacquerware is light and soft to the touch and gives off hardly a sound. I know few greater pleasures than holding a lacquer soup bowl in my hands, feeling upon my palms the weight of the liquid and its mild warmth. The sensation is something like that of holding a...
Tadao Ando at the Centre Pompidou: Jean Nouvel and Renzo Piano tell all
The ultra-famous Japanese architect and winner of the Pritzker Prize , Tadao Ando (born in 1941) possesses an uncommon grace. He doesn’t display the usual rigidity during interviews. I met him last year and the man was all smiles, speaking to me at length about boxing...
The Fiac in Paris attracts Michael Heizer, Hauser & Wirth, a monumental Calder, 100 starfish and an organic gallerist
Information has a resounding impact in the art market not when it addresses such notions as beauty, aesthetic renewal or visual research, but rather when it uses superlatives: it’s always the most expensive, the biggest, the most spectacular. In the race to extremes...
Mantegna, Bellini. A sublime exhibition in London. 90 artworks reveal the admiration and competition between two Renaissance geniuses
The museums with the richest collections of paintings always stage the most beautiful temporary exhibitions of Old Masters art. This is, quite simply, because these collections constitute a great currency of exchange. But it’s also because they naturally attract the...
Beyeler Foundation in Basel: The fascinating mystery of the paintings of Balthus, as told by his widow Setsuko
Artists have an advantage over mere mortals in that the fruit of their torments can give rise to great works of art. They are able to express their contradictions and allow them to play out on canvas, creating a sort of tension that appeals to the viewer’s emotions....
Stefan Simchowitz: the thorn in the side of the American art market answers 6 questions in less than one minute and claims speculation is a good thing
The day I understood the contemporary art market (the market as opposed to the art itself) was the day I realized that everything in this industry is a question of confidence. The art market isn’t about justice for art nor art history. In an age when virtuosity and...
Frieze in London. Let’s follow the trends: political art and rediscoveries from dead artists
There are two trends currently shaping the art market. The first is the presence of an art with some kind of political dimension, be it environmental awareness, feminism, or a problematic American presidency... The second is that galleries are having trouble selling...
Basquiat at the Vuitton Foundation (2): When Yusaku Maezawa, the buyer of the $110.5m Basquiat, discusses his collection and his dreams of flying to the moon
The Japanese businessman Yusaku Maezawa (born in 1975), the eighteenth richest man in Japan according to Forbes, founder of Japan's largest online fashion mall, Zozotown, became an overnight celebrity in May 2017 when he announced that he’d purchased an enormous...